Boeing OFT-2 Liftoff

A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket lifts off over Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida for NASA Boeing’s uncrewed Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2). Launch for OFT-2 occurred at 6:54 p.m. EDT. Expected to arrive at the space station for docking about 24 hours later, the Starliner will carry more than 500 pounds of NASA cargo and crew supplies to the orbiting laboratory and return to Earth with more than 500 pounds of cargo. The flight test is designed to test the system’s end-to-end capabilities for NASA’s Commercial Crew Program providing valuable data towards NASA certifying Boeing’s crew transportation system for regular crewed flights to and from the International Space Station.